What’s new?

Improving security of Matomo has been a focus for us in this release. For example: any IP address attempting to login to Matomo will be blocked after a number of unsuccessful login attempts (to keep away any bots and automated tools trying to guess your passwords). You can additionally keep your Matomo account safer by enabling the new Two Factor Authentication (2FA) feature. Also when changing password or email address, any user will be required to enter their old password. We’ve also fixed several XSS thanks to security researchers who reported issues as part of our Bug Bounty program.

We’ve also made several usability improvements. Up to now it wasn’t easy to get the evolution graphs to display a different period. Now under Evolution graphs, you will find a new icon “Change Periods” which lets you switch the period being displayed in just one click!

Also, under each report table, you will also find a new feature called “Show Totals Row”. When clicked, a new row will be displayed at the bottom of the table named “Totals”. This row shows the sum of each column values. This is useful when you’re analysing your data and need to know the total value of a given metric.

It’s never been easier to check out your Transitions report: they are now directly available under Behavior > Transitions.

You can also now generate Campaign Tracking URLs by using the Campaign URL Generator directly from Matomo! Go to Matomo > Acquisition > Campaign URL Builder to get started. (The tool has always been available on Matomo.org but is now directly available in your Matomo).

Users with the “Admin” permission can now share dashboards with other users (it used to be only Super Users who could share dashboards).

A new page is available to Super Users in Matomo > Administration > Diagnostics > Tracking Failures. This page lists any tracking failures that happened during the last 2 days. Please note that only the most common kind of tracking failures are recorded (for example, an un-used Site ID is found in the Tracking code).

Regarding the JavaScript Tracking: While the piwik.js and piwik.php file still exist (and will always work), we’re also introducing the new matomo.js and matomo.php files and they will be used by default now. And if you’re tracking mobile apps, we’ve released new Major versions of both the iOS and Android SDKs!

As always, new smartphone, tablets and other devices and browsers are detected, as well as new Search engines and social networks.

And the Tag Manager keeps getting better with several improvements and fixes over the last few weeks.

207 tickets have been closed by more than 20 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

Security release

This release is rated critical.

Several XSS issues have been responsibly reported and fixed in this release. Our security bug bounty program (also on Hackerone) welcomes & rewards researchers who discover and responsibly report to us any security issues found in Matomo or any of the plugins created by Matomo/InnoCraft.

Database upgrade

This release does not contain any major database upgrade.

Platform Changes

Matomo is an open analytics platform. In an effort to help Matomo developers learn about improvements and changes in the core APIs, we document the changes since the last release.

In this 3.8.0 release there are breaking API changes, New APIs, New Features, Internal changes and deprecations. Read more in Platform Changelog for Developers to see all changes to the platform and APIs.

Note: the Marketplace showcases more than 83 plugins already compatible with Matomo 3 and this is just the beginning. Matomo is your universal data analytics platform!

New and updated SDKs (Tracking API Clients)

The Matomo team offers official SDKs (Tracking API Clients) for measuring your mobile apps and any other kind of apps. Both the iOS and Android SDKs have seen a major new release in December:

What’s new?

Several large-traffic production websites are successfully using the Tag Manager for the past two months and enjoying the simplicity and flexibility of the tool. Anyone who knows Google Tag Manager will be able to quickly master Matomo Tag Manager. This changelog will now also list all improvements made to the Tag Manager in a new section below. If you are a developer, we’re looking for contributors to submit & add new Tags to our list, please join us on Github.

71 tickets have been closed by more than 18 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support),
or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

Security release

This release is rated critical.

Several XSS issues were responsibly disclosed and fixed in this release.
Our security bug bounty program welcomes & rewards researchers who discover and responsibly report to us any security issues found in Matomo or any of the plugins created by Matomo/InnoCraft.

Database upgrade

This release does not contain any major database upgrade.

Platform Changes

Matomo is an open analytics platform. In an effort to help Matomo developers learn about improvements and changes in the core APIs, we document the changes since the last release.

What’s new?

We’ve launched a new security bug bounty program on HackerOne. As a result we received lots of great reports and have identified several security issues (XSS) which are fixed in this release.

If you use NGINX, please take a look at our new minimal NGINX configuration which implements best practises for Matomo on NGINX.

When you create a goal matching an event, you can now automatically set the Event Value as the Goal Revenue for each goal conversion. This is useful when you extensively use events and goals at the same time.

Not only you can measure Websites and Mobile Apps with Matomo, but you can now also create an “Intranet” website. Intranet websites should be used whenever you measure an intranet website, where most visitors on the intranet are within your internal network. This new Intranet website feature means you don’t need to manually configure Matomo as per this FAQ anymore.

140 tickets have been closed by more than 16 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

We are together creating the best open analytics platform in the world. You can help make Matomo even more awesome by getting involved in Matomo!

]]>Matomo 3.6.0https://matomo.org/changelog/matomo-3-6-0/
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:33:22 +0000https://matomo.org/?post_type=changelog&p=26899We’re excited to share with you our latest (and epic!) 3.6.0 release, continuing the great work done this year. Because we have greatly improved security and fixed a possible issue, this release is rated critical so please upgrade as soon as possible.

What’s new?

255 tickets have been closed by more than 26 contributors. Read more about the most important changes:

Users management re-designed

Users Management has been completely re-designed with efficiency and usability in mind. Check out the updated ‘Manage users’ guide to see how powerful and easy it now is to manage users and permissions, even across hundreds of websites and users.

New ‘write’ permission and ‘admin’ can now create users

We’re also slightly changing what ‘admin’ permission means, and we introduce a new ‘write’ permission for more flexibility. Users with ‘admin’ permissions have more power starting in Matomo 3.6.0: they can now directly create new users and give these users permissions to access the website’s data.

Improvements in reporting and dashboards

In terms of reporting: you can now build more awesome and precise dashboards by including only the metric(s) you need in your dashboard (Try the new widget “Generic > Metric” to display your KPI chosen amongst all of the dozens KPIs available in Matomo). In Referrers reports, “Social network” is now its own Referrer type along Search Engines, Websites, Campaigns and Direct entries. In all email reports, users will now find an “Unsubscribe” link that will let them unsubscribe from the email report. When you segment data in a report and the data is not processed yet, a notification will now explain why and clarify what to do next.

Administration and security improvements

In terms of Admin features: You can now define a Privacy policy page, and/or a Terms and conditions page for your Matomo that will be displayed at the bottom of certain pages, such as the Login screen. CORS hostnames can also now be configured in the User Interface directly (no more need to edit the config file). So far when you deleted a website, Matomo did not delete RAW data in your database. But starting in 3.6.0 a scheduled task will run to delete all data for websites that were deleted.

This release also brings dozens of other improvements and fixes. For example the Matomo Glossary has been redesigned and improved. MySQL 5.7.17+ compatibility with support for group replication. And we introduce several security improvements, please learn more about security in the section below.

New Tag Manager product now available for free in Matomo!

And our new and awesome Tag Manager is available for free from the Marketplace. It is a complete open source alternative to Google Tag Manager. Check it out! Soon we will include it in Matomo by default.

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

Security release

This release is rated critical and it is highly recommend to upgrade to Matomo 3.6.0 as soon as possible.

Matomo authentication security was reviewed and improved in this release: no token_auth stored in cookies, after a password change all sessions are invalidated across all devices, all cookies are now set with the Secure flag over HTTPS, also now the session is kept active on a computer only when both the IP address and user agent are still matching (preventing re-use of the session cookie on another device).

Need help upgrading Matomo?

Development Services

If you are missing some functionality in Matomo or need a bug fixed, or if you need a new custom feature developed especially for you, you can sponsor the development of it. Fill in this form to get started.

Features and bug fixes that were sponsored in this new release are marked below with “Sponsored by”. Thank you to these organisations for sponsoring improvements in Matomo!

What’s new?

In this release we keep on improving Matomo based on your feedback and our vision to build the most awesome analytics platform that gives you full control of your data. Some notable changes include: the “Actions” menu is now called “Behaviour”, and the “Referrers” menu is now “Acquisition”. A regression (in Row Evolution) has also been fixed. And the Real-time widget has been tweaked and now shows IP address, Visitor ID on hover.

62 tickets have been closed by more than 13 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

We are together creating the best open analytics platform in the world. You can help make Matomo even more awesome by getting involved in Matomo!

]]>Matomo 3.5.0https://matomo.org/changelog/matomo-3-5-0/
Tue, 08 May 2018 12:06:01 +0000https://matomo.org/?post_type=changelog&p=26373We are proud to announce Matomo 3.5.0: a new major release of Matomo Analytics.

What’s new?

Matomo 3.5.0 brings you many new Privacy tools to help bring compliance with GDPR regulations. For example you can now easily export, or delete, data for any visit or visitor. New tools were introduced to let you Anonymise old historical data (IP Address, replace User ID with a pseudonym, etc.), and for asking for user consent. You will also enjoy better security for example: Tracking codes will more often use HTTPS. And you can configure Matomo to connect to your database over SSL. Matomo performs also even better under high data processing load with several performance improvements.

-> And an important news: you can now enable the new GeoIp2 plugin in order to use the modern geolocation database. So we recommend if possible that you try the GeoIp2 geolocation driver for more accurate geolocation information. Since Geoip1 databases are not updated anymore, we recommend you try Geoip2 if possible.

Finally, we’ve made several Privacy-by-design improvements to our Tracker Proxy tool (useful to hide your Matomo URL when tracking many websites into the same Matomo instance),io you can see the detailed improvements below.

186 tickets have been closed by more than 16 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

We are together creating the best open analytics platform in the world. You can help make Matomo even more awesome by getting involved in Matomo!

]]>Matomo 3.4.0https://matomo.org/changelog/matomo-3-4-0/
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:01:05 +0000https://matomo.org/?post_type=changelog&p=26059We are proud to announce Matomo 3.4.0: a new release of Matomo Analytics bringing more than 130 changes including new features, many small improvements and a few bug fixes.

What’s new?

As part of the upcoming GDPR compliance project (most of the GDPR features will be available in our next releases due in April and May), we have improved the Opt-out iframe feature and you can now customise the Opt-out text color, font family, font size, and background color.

In this release, we’ve also improved how you can export your data from Matomo. When you click the export icon, you will now see a window where you can select between the different data formats, how many rows to export, and other options to help you get the data you need in seconds (all data exports use the Reporting APIs).

Continuing on making Matomo more usable and simple, we made improvements such as: a better print version of Matomo reports, re-designed the annotations in graphs, new keyboard shortcuts (press ? to see the whole list), and the ability to switch to the Zen Mode (where the left menu and the top bar collapse) to enter the engaging full screen view. Also, all users can now log in with either their username or their email address.

The core platform was also improved in several ways. In the JS tracker you can now record when your users logout by using the new resetUserId method (especially useful for Single page applications). When segmenting your reports and users via the API, or when building custom reports, you will benefit from new date segments. And to let you fully automate how Matomo is set up for your new customers, you can now leverage our new Dashboards API. And as usual, we’ve added lots of new bots, brands, devices and a few more spammers.

132 tickets have been closed by more than 26 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

We are together creating the best open analytics platform in the world. You can help make Matomo even more awesome by getting involved in Matomo!

]]>Matomo 3.3.0https://matomo.org/changelog/matomo-3-3-0/
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:27:48 +0000https://matomo.org/?post_type=changelog&p=25896We are proud to announce Matomo 3.3.0: the first public release of Matomo after we announced our new name!

What’s new?

“Matomo” now replaces the name “Piwik” almost everywhere in the application. We’re going to continue renaming all projects, tools, Tracking SDKs, documentation, over the next few weeks. The release also ships with several minor bug fixes, as well as new features in Log Analytics. See the full changelog below for details.

53 tickets have been closed by more than 11 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Matomo Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Matomo! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Matomo Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Matomo. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Matomo in your language consider contributing to translations.

What’s new?

This release brings more than 100 improvements to usability, security, performance and reliability.

Security improvements include the ability to restrict using Piwik for a set of whitelisted IP addresses. To use Piwik faster, when you use Piwik try pressing the question mark key ? to show a list of available keyboard shortcuts. Importing logs with Piwik? Log Analytics has seen a few interesting new features in this release. Or if you use Piwik behind a proxy, with this new release all possible proxy setups are supported. As with most of our releases, new device models are now detected (iPhone X, Huawei and Samsung devices), as well as new social media, new search engines and bots. And we keep fighting spammers and added new referrer spammers thanks to the community suggestions. Finally, new free and premium plugins have been released on the Marketplace! Learn all the details below.

111 tickets have been closed by 25 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Piwik Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Piwik! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Piwik Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Piwik. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Piwik in your language consider contributing to translations.

What’s new?

In this release we introduce a completely new Segment Editor. You can now create custom segments of your audience faster and easier! Try out the new segment editor and get deeper insights into your users segments.

For those of you measuring your Ecommerce shop in Piwik, you can now add all the “Ecommerce > Sales” reports as Widgets in the Dashboard. Bring on the awesome ecommerce dashboards!

We also introduce several minor bug fixes and solve the issue of the broken Czech language file in the previous release. Piwik 3.2.0 also brings full compatibility with PHP 7.2. Heaps more devices, and referrer spammers, are now detected by Piwik!

61 tickets have been closed by more than 15 contributors!

After You Update

Use the forums if you have any question or feedback (free support), or contact the Business Support Team to make the most of your Piwik Analytics and get professional support (paid support).

Please help us spread the word about Piwik! Maybe you can write about the project on your blog, website, twitter, talk about Piwik Analytics at conferences, or let your friends and colleagues know what is Piwik. Already 1,000,000+ websites have liberated their web analytics, and with your help we can grow the community!

To improve Piwik in your language consider contributing to translations,